Description
Four centuries ago, and thirteen years before the Mayflower, a group of men--led by a one-armed ex-pirate, an epileptic aristocrat, a reprobate cleric, and a government spy--arrived in Virginia aboard a fleet of three ships and set about trying to create a settlement on a tiny island in the James River. Despite their shortcomings, and against the odds, they built Jamestown, a ramshackle outpost that laid the foundations of the British Empire and the United States of America.
Drawing on new discoveries, neglected sources, and manuscript collections scattered across the world, Savage Kingdom challenges the textbook image of Jamestown--revealing instead a reckless, daring enterprise led by outcasts of the Old World who found themselves interlopers in a new one.
Author: Benjamin Woolley
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/08/2008
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.36w x 0.94d
ISBN13: 9780060090579
ISBN10: 006009057X
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
- History | Americas (North Central South West Indies)